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“Jonathan Dove’s music has filled opera houses with delighted audiences of all ages on five continents. He is one of the most performed living opera composers and few, if any, contemporary composers have so successfully or consistently explored the potential of opera to communicate, to create wonder and to enrich people’s lives.” Taken from Jonathan Dove’s biography on his website, this is a bold statement but one that is supported by the extraordinary number of operas he has composed (over 30) and the number of Flight productions that exist (to date there are 41 productions that have received over 150 performances since its premiere in 1998). So what makes Flight such a great piece? First of all, it has a brilliant libretto by April de Angelis which has both comedic and dramatic elements at every turn. Set in the terminal lounge of an airport it features an unlikely group of characters who are forced to spend a night together due to a storm that grounds all the flights. Second, the music is exciting, vivid, colourful, accessible with vocal lines that are perfectly set supported by dazzling orchestrations. (More on that later)... Let’s meet the characters: There is the enigmatic Controller, a coloratura soprano (think Mozart’s Queen of the Night) who reigns over everyone in her control tower and unleashes ferocious virtuosity in her “storm” aria in Act 2. The Refugee is a countertenor (high male voice that sings in falsetto) who is trapped in the airport and who tries to make friends and get help from the travellers he meets. The haunting, fragile and exotic color of the countertenor voice perfectly suits this mysterious character. His Act 3 aria is achingly beautiful and heartbreaking and is based on an exotic sounding scale that Jonathan Dove created specifically for this character. The Steward (baritone) and Stewardess (mezzo-soprano) are two young flight attendants who have to serve people all the time and are bored to death by their jobs but they have a very frisky side to them which they act on whenever they get a chance. The music that they sing while they are working is quite mundane with lots of repetition and little variety but it becomes unleashed when they take a walk on the wild side with bongos and congas! The Immigration Officer does not sing until the final part of the opera but we hear his ominous theme (an alternating two note minor third rhythmic figure that is in the unusual metre of 11/8) first heard in the low brass and the timpani in his appearance in Act 1. There are two married couples: Tina and Bill: a young couple who have gone a bit stale on each other and are looking to recapture that lost spark by going on holiday. Their music is playful, fun, jazzy and optimistic. Throughout the course of the opera, things take a bit of a turn and Bill, the more timid of the two, goes on an unexpected adventure of his own... The Minskman and Minskwoman, so named because he is in the diplomatic service and has been appointed to a new position which he is very excited about and she is dreading. To add to her anxiety, she is quite pregnant and seriously questioning her life choices. Their introduction is set to music that is very fast, irregular, and perfectly conveys the state of agitation which they are experiencing. By contrast, the Minskwoman’s Act 2 aria “I bought this suitcase in New York” is a beautiful slow lyric mediation which evens features the other sleeping characters in the background. Last, but not least, the “Older Woman” (mezzo-soprano, the lowest sounding of the three mezzos in this opera) a solo traveller who is waiting for her “fiancé”, a much younger man who is a bartender she met on one of her previous holidays. Her music is bluesy and subtle as she does not want to get noticed by anyone but that doesn’t last long... The Orchestra: Jonathan Dove is a brilliant orchestrator and the music is exciting, vivid, colourful with a wide range of motifs and dynamics. A particular feature is the large percussion ensemble consisting of vibraphone, glockenspiel, xylophone, tubular bells, (and a wide assortment of cymbals and things jingle and go boom!) The music alternates between driving, pulsating music to keep everyone on the edge of their seats and music that is slow, undulating and reflective that perfectly captures the spirit of the texts being sung. One of the highlights for me personally are the places where the singers are featured in choral type settings which happen throughout the piece. Dove, in addition to being a wonderful opera composer, has also written a lot of great music for choirs and he understands the voice perfectly. Thank you so much for joining us for this performance and we hope you enjoy the flight! Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a wild ride!! Leslie Dala Conductor

Our artistic initiative towards Flight the opera led us to think in a heightened way, as you can imagine. We see the show as an allegory; a fable about freedom and entrapment. Initially we thought to enclose the space to emphasize the inner mind of the lead character Refugee, who is trapped inside an airport, without identity, without friends, without status. But, in our view, that is not the state of mind of Refugee. He dreams of open space, freedom, which is what an airport can represent, at its best. We wanted him to be surrounded by the illusion of freedom and hope, which was nevertheless unattainable: windows, skies, air he can never breathe. In many ways, all the characters, symbolized and unified by their desire for departure, are enclosed in their own worlds, unable to break from them. We were inspired by the architecture of Eero Saarinen, whose TWA terminal at JFK is one of the most iconic and alluring spaces ever designed. It embodies the bold notion of free movement, through design – in it, there seem to be no boundaries. In the Refugee’s world, boundaries are what define him. But he isn’t the only one. All the characters seem to occupy confined space and share the desire to escape. Ironically, the Refugee wants to escape by belonging, by being allowed entry into a world he can only view from the terminal where he exists as a perpetual outsider. The opera has key resonances for our time. In many ways, it reflects the new, dangerously unfolding mindset of exclusion. We hope to inspire another idea through this production and its visual: that borders are an illusion. We wanted to set the production in a mythical other world, not just architecturally but with costumes as well. We want the audience to embrace the broader story-telling of fable by creating a time period which exists only in the imagination: a sort of combination of now and always, as if to say the world will always struggle with the idea of inclusion. Morris Panych, courtesy of Pacific Opera Victoria

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Chair Krista Johanson Vice Chair Stanis Smith Treasurer Roger Flowerdew Secretary Andrea Wood Past Chair Susan Van der Flier Jennifer Choi Shaun Dolman Gagan Grewal Joshua Hutchinson Sameer Jamal Kevin Kelly Kirk LaPointe Pierre Lebel Ivor Luk Emily MacKinnon Jennifer Muench Richard Rees Chloe Sauder Isabelle Spothelfer Carol Tsuyuki Wilson Williams President, Vancouver Opera Guild Jennifer Coté

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